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beau-jolly on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-195053
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:32:39 +0000beau-jolly195053@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Oxy I can believe that. In Victorian times tourists would stop at an enterprising blacksmith's in Tisbury where they could buy a small pick axe to chip off a souvenir. </p>
<p>Maddy had a chunk of stone which she had been told was a bit of Stonehenge. It looks like local greenstone to me but it's still around somewhere. Now who was it had some magic beans for sale?</p>
<p>Flugel: Wrt Woodhenge. I would recommend it to anyone who has about 90 seconds to waste.
</p>Titus on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-195049
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:51:05 +0000Titus195049@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>My favourite Stonehenge cartoon was of a couple of Ancient Britons wearing animal skins gazing at Stonehenge which was still intact. The top-stones formed a continuous monorail circuit and there was a little stone locomotive happily chugging around it. "Quick" was the caption "Dismantle it - here come the Romans."
</p>Skylarking on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-195042
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:04:10 +0000Skylarking195042@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Apart from Getafix, presumably Titus?
</p>Titus on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-195029
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:36:21 +0000Titus195029@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>One is tempted to ask "What have the Druids ever done for us?" but unfortunately the boring answer would seem to be "Er, not a lot, actually".</p>
<p>(I am however willing to be enlightened by those better informed than me.)
</p>Oxbridge on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-195028
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:35:58 +0000Oxbridge195028@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Back in the 1930s, when officialdom fell in love with the idea of getting everywhere at speed, they seriously proposed to sweep Stonehenge out of the way to build the A303. You can pretty much date the modern heritage movement from the outrage that started - not that it saved many of our cities from the boneheaded 'modernisation' of the post-War period.
</p>Flugelbinder on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-195023
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:26:19 +0000Flugelbinder195023@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Thanks for the tip off... will check it out :)<br />
Avebury would be even more impressive if they hadn't broken up a lot of the stones to build houses in the village... ahhh you gotta love the scant disregard for archaeology in the past!
</p>Skylarking on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-195020
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:06:18 +0000Skylarking195020@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>I actually watched some earlier this year on Youtube. It stands up surprisingly well actually.
</p>Flugelbinder on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-195015
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:12:13 +0000Flugelbinder195015@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Almost, and I stress ALMOST, tempted to try and find a copy of Children of the Stones to watch it again... but I fear it may not stand the test of time.
</p>nickb on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-194952
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:11:46 +0000nickb194952@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>funny
</p>Skylarking on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-194949
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:09:03 +0000Skylarking194949@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Children of the Stones was deeply creepy. They don't make 'em like that any more.
</p>Flugelbinder on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-194948
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:02:04 +0000Flugelbinder194948@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Indeed, I have always preferred Avebury and found it to be somehow creepier.<br />
Mind you, I watched 'Children of the Stones' in my youth which no doubt has played no small part in forming opinions.<br />
The new visitor centre at Stonehenge, or rather the closure of the road that splits from the 303 to pass the henge, is generating no end of anger amongst the locals... Villages becoming rat runs for people avoiding the 303 bottlenecks that occur at Amesbury.. whatever next!<br />
And as an added bonus for any would be visitors, don't forget to visit Woodhenge at Durrington Walls (on the A345 heading North from Amesbury) where it is suggested those that built Stonehenge encamped. Of course, the Wood has long since been replaced by a myriad of stone blocks and is generally disappointing to most...
</p>beau-jolly on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-194946
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:49:33 +0000beau-jolly194946@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Avesbury has a lot more standing stones and is more than a bit creepy.</p>
<p>They are planning a new visitors' centre for Stonehenge. It's going to be a mile away so you can see the stones looming out of the plain rather than out of your car window. The effect will be somewhat spoiled though by the proposed land train for fat Americans. It is worth walking around the fields beyond the henge and coming up the avenue towards it. Much more atmospheric(and free)</p>
<p>I love stonehenge. I had a little wander around it on the morning of my 50th birthday. Somewhere there is a picture of me and my sister and the family's new puppy sitting on one of the stones with a picnic. That was in the days when it was just on the side of the road and you could walk all over it. We must have left our beards at home though.
</p>Flugelbinder on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-194943
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:28:25 +0000Flugelbinder194943@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Now THAT is funny, bless them. For reference, Stonehenge is on the 303 next to Amesbury, sorry, I should have mentioned that before.</p>
<p>Still chuckling at the concept of stick on beards... robes made from bed sheets too?Guessing their hearts weren't fully committed to being Druids. Unless it was the women with the stick on beards?
</p>Skylarking on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-194940
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:56:36 +0000Skylarking194940@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Ah, thanks for the tip off Flugelbinder. Duly changed. Was amused to read that the first time Druids met to worship at Stonehenge in 1905 they apparently had "stick on beards".<br />
You couldn't make it up.
</p>Flugelbinder on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-194938
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:50:50 +0000Flugelbinder194938@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>They've re-routed the A303 to Avebury?? Bloody hell, my trip home tonight is going to be a nightmare!!</p>
<p>Have the Druids ever actually built anything of their own? Surprised they haven't laid claim to the Giant's Causeway yet :p
</p>Skylarking on "Pagans and Druids issue official apology for Stonehenge"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=66518#post-194933
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:39:33 +0000Skylarking194933@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Britain’s Pagan and Neo-Druidic communities have issued a joint statement, finally apologising for the 'unspeakable suffering and inconvenience' caused by the building of Stonehenge in the second and third centuries BC.</p>
<p>The official report entitled 'Stones of Shame – an Ecumenical Neo-Pagan Response to Stonehenge' was launched this morning by Archdruid Seth Wainscot, on a small podium in the middle of the stone circle. It comes three and a half thousand years after the first series standing stones were quarried in Pembrokeshire and two thousand years after the monument was finally completed, approximately 800 years late and seventeen times over budget according to figures in the lengthy appendix.</p>
<p>It follows hot on the heels of apologies from The Catholic Church for historical events such as The Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades and more recently, a run of lacklustre studio albums from Bon Jovi. Now other faith groups are following the Churches lead and are claiming responsibility for events that long predate their own births.</p>
<p>'For too long we have romanticised Stonehenge' Said Archdruid Seth 'We see it as a crucial part of our heritage and frankly we’ve been a bit defensive about the whole half-arsed eyesore. But thinking about it, those stones are bloody heavy and all the archaeological evidence suggests that our predecessors weren’t particularly hot on health and safety.'</p>
<p>The admission has been dismissed as 'too little too late' by those claiming to be descendents of the original labourers. 'There is no genuine apology without a heartfelt five-figure pay off' claimed Bill Turner on behalf of the 'Indirect Victims of Stonehenge' lobbying group.</p>
<p>The UK Pagan Federation has claimed that financial restitution was not an option. However a spokesman has hinted that Britain’s Pagans and Druids are still keen to make amends in other ways:</p>
<p>'I tell you what, that stretch of the A303 is a bloody nightmare; it could do with at least two extra lanes both ways. I’ll get a bunch of our protesters to set up a camp there ‘til the Department of Transport sees sense.'
</p>FormerlyAlOPecia on "Spain to retain ‘culturally important’ Inquisition"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=9475#post-25689
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:45:29 +0000FormerlyAlOPecia25689@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>It could lead to a call for banning the wearing of bog floppy hats in public. 5.
</p>saltire on "Spain to retain ‘culturally important’ Inquisition"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=9475#post-25679
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:46:12 +0000saltire25679@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>The ' Ramblas ' of a bitter gooner detracts somewhat from the piece. A typical Bendtner finish. Where will it all end Des ?......6th or 7th next season I fancy.</p>
<p>Aye Ready [for administration]
</p>fun and games on "Spain to retain ‘culturally important’ Inquisition"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=9475#post-25667
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:12:21 +0000fun and games25667@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>I was wondering just this afternoon when you were going to show your face round here again. Maybe you should have left it another couple of days. No, not really..
</p>SingingHinny on "Spain to retain ‘culturally important’ Inquisition"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=9475#post-25639
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:22:49 +0000SingingHinny25639@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Stars, especially for calling Susan Boyle mentally ill. Well, you might as well have done. Cruel, but fair enough. Same goes for Amanda Holden.
</p>Des Custard on "Spain to retain ‘culturally important’ Inquisition"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=9475#post-25628
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:42:29 +0000Des Custard25628@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Despite protests from dissidents in Catalonia, the Roman Catholic Church in Spain has voted by a large majority to retain the Inquisition, citing its cultural importance and its popularity with the people.</p>
<p>While it has been said that victims of the Inquisition do not get a fair crack of the whip, adherents point to the relatively low numbers actually tortured and executed and the low levels of re-offending. </p>
<p>‘To be fair,’ said Grand Inquisitor Cardinal Torquemada, 41, ‘the victims are given every chance to recant, and it’s only the ones who won’t see sense and survive the initial torture rounds that are actually put forward to the final auto-da-fé stage. </p>
<p>‘In that respect it’s very similar to the treatment handed down in English-speaking countries in so-called talent shows, but far more dignified. And we would never victimise the mentally ill like you do with ‘I’m a Celebrity’ or did with ‘Big Brother’. And have you seen how the French inflict misery on millions with their political discussions?’</p>
<p>The Inquisitors say that the autos-da-fé are extremely popular cultural events, so much so that they usually take place on major feast days and attract crowds of many thousands. The crowds join in denouncing the accused and cheering the Inquisitor who, protected only by a red cape and a small cross, is regarded as a brave and charismatic figure. </p>
<p>‘Even then, the majority recant and are garrotted mercifully before being burnt at the stake, which is more humane than bullfighting,’ said Torquemada. ‘The burnings take place at a separate event, so if you buy both tickets together it’s good value for money too.’</p>
<p>While the Inquisitor said that he was pleased at the way Spain currently led the world at football, he warned that controls would have to be introduced if too few men trained for the priesthood. ‘We may have to consider outbidding Barcelona for Cesc Fabregas and giving him the chance to see the error of his ways.’
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